How to highlight a character of tabText of the TabWidget?

[aaron]

Dear all,
I want to highlight a character of the text of the QTabWidget,for example, the tabText is "Display Tab" , and I want to change it to "Diaplay Tab *" , but how to do it ?
Thanks!

[wysota]

There is no straightforward way to do that. You'd have to subclass QTabBar, reimplement tab drawing routines and then subclass QTabWidget and use your new TabBar.

[aamer4yu]

Am not sure if it will work...but you can try using rich text while setting the tab text..
something like -
setTabText(index,"Display Tab <red> *</red>");

[aaron]

Dear ,
Thanks for your advice.
Wysota's idea should meet my request, but my Qt's version is 4.3, so some function like "setTabButton() ..." can not support.
I will try aamer4yu's idea. Thanks again.

[wysota]

I was not talking about setTabButton. I was talking about QTabWidget::setTabBar(). Rich text doesn't work on tabs so you can safely skip trying it.

[aaron]

Dear wysota,
According to your advice, I have done it, thanks for your support